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* Please note that this session may be recorded, and if so, the audio archive is expected to be made available as open content, along with the proceedings of the call to our community membership and the public at-large under [[WikiHomePage#Intellectual_Property_Rights_.28IPR.29_Policy|our prevailing open IPR policy]].

See developing details on the next Summit's homepage at: '''[[OntologySummit2015]]'''

See developing details on the next Summit's homepage at: '''[[OntologySummit2015]]'''

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* 2. Open discussion: explore the theme(s) and topics that the community would want to see covered in [[OntologySummit2015]] - ALL (60 min.) ... (refer to [http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/w/index.php?title=ConferenceCall_2014_11_06&oldid=14968#hid1D6 process above] )

* 2. Open discussion: explore the theme(s) and topics that the community would want to see covered in [[OntologySummit2015]] - ALL (60 min.) ... (refer to [http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/w/index.php?title=ConferenceCall_2014_11_06&oldid=14968#hid1D6 process above] )

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The OntologySummit is an annual series of events (first started by Ontolog and NIST in 2006) that involves the ontology community and communities related to each year's theme chosen for the summit. The Ontology Summit program is now co-organized by Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA, NCO_NITRD along with the co-sponsorship of other organizations that are supportive of the Summit goals and objectives.
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While the actual events of OntologySummit2015 will be rolled out between January and April of 2015, we have decided we will try to plan for it early. An initial round of input has already been received, as part of the OntologySummit2014postmortem session on 2014.05.15. During that session, the community also agreed on having today's session, so we can dedicate some quality time to specifically discuss the possibilities and options on the choice of Themes for OntologySummit2015. The session on 2014.10.09 identified a shortlist of themes.
This session will be devoted to selecting the theme that best allow us to leverage next year's OntologySummit.
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[09:40] Ram D. Sriram: Ontologies will play a significant role in the realization of SNSS. For example, a considerable amount of data passes through the
network and should be converted into higher abstractions that can be used in appropriate reasoning. This requires the development of standard terminologies
which capture objects and events. Creating and testing such terminologies will aid in effective recognition and reaction in a network-centric situation
awareness environment. This would involve identifying a methodology for development of terminologies for multimodal data (or ontologies), developing
appropriate ontologies, developing testing methods for these ontologies, demonstrating interoperability for selected domains (e.g., healthcare, situational
awareness), and using these ontologies in decision making.
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[10:00] Aleksandra Sojic: Track 6 is related to a huge topic and it deserves attention; building ontologies based on the industrial standards opens many
issues that have to be addressed, e.g. balancing industrial standards and ontology requirements that are often conflicting
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[10:01] Mark Underwood: Regarding Tracks 4 & 6: While these are similar, Track 4 tries to confine itself [sic] to development and ontology building concerns.
Track 6 would catalog other related efforts -- especially standards-related -- that other groups are pursuing. Merging 6 into a subpart of 4 is worth
considering if we fail to develop a critical mass of work by standards groups.
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[10:01] Terry Longstreth: What I mean by SocioTechnico Socio of or pertaining to human societies and cultures, as distinct from individuals and corporations
Technico of or pertaining to the physical artifacts produced directly or indirectly by human endeavours and tangible manifestations of those artifacts
Socio+Technico relating physical artifacts to the workings of societies and cultures
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[10:02] Terry Longstreth: Some Challenges Can ontology help to organize and record the salient features of cultures to expose and help resolve cultural and
societal differences? Can ontological studies help to identify and document the places where technology (of any kind, from flint arrowheads to Watsons) is
bound to specific cultures and societies? is independent of cultural and societal constraints, norms, preconceptions?
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[10:03] Mark Underwood: @AleksandraSojic Indeed - Big topic, and when I started to build a list of *just* the IEEE related work, the topic did not get
smaller. We may indeed end up with a broad, but not deep, survey of the work by others -- depending on champions & willing panelists
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[10:12] Michael Grüninger: One possibility could be to explore the topic of Sociotechnical Aspects of Applied Ontology as a future miniseries within Ontolog
Forum, rather than as an Ontology Summit theme. This would allow more exploration of the topic
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[10:19] Aleksandra Sojic: @MarkUnderwood: right, the critical mass is crucial; on the other hand, everyone working with standards has to deal with a set of
problems on a daily basis; a guideline/recommendation for making a conversion/implementation of a standard and represent it in an ontology language (while
staying accurate in representing both sides, standard and ontology) is still missing.
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[10:28] Mark Underwood: Julita Bermejo Alonso: I too was thinking narrowly HCI, but I suspect "sociotechnical" is a topic that would need to draw in
specialists not normally in typically technology-rich (drenched) circles
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[10:31] David Whitten: I've heard it said that anything can be used as a Weapon because "being a weapon" is tied to purpose, and thus the category is an
example of a "Role" type category. Is being an "artifact" the same kind of "Role" type category?
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[10:42] Julita Bermejo Alonso: From my viewpoint, Artifacts is a broad topic. I have been working on artifact/system ontologies addressing all this, that has
later on adjusted to different domains. Finding the commonalities of artifacts, function, design and so forth is really interesting. Applying them onto
particular domains get really tricky. I have been working with only 2 different ones. Imagine with several as suggested on Track 2
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[10:46] David Whitten: I agree @JulitaBermejoAlonso that Artifact-hood is a broad topic. Leo's example of a seashell as an ashtray is an interesting view of
being an artifact. It seems that the activity of using something as if it were an artifact almost induces a role type.
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[10:47] Mike Bennett: I'd reinforce that previous point - there are well known ontological solutions to the seashell problem but a lot of people might be
approach ontology as a technical idea and not know to look for these solutions.
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[10:50] Mark Underwood: RE: Artifacts - The use case of provenance for devices in IoT / Big Data AAAS is a useful way to think about intersections between
IoE tracks and Artifact thinking - if these were to be merged. Current prax in device provenance is most anything but abstract, & operate in systems that are
ontology-indifferent (oblivious). I sense that Leo's proposal is to develop the abstractions to support systems builders, whereas perhaps we are setting out
the lay of the land in the IoE tracks.
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[11:10] Terry Longstreth: @MarkUnderwood: Computers are tools that can be useful, but ontologies are intellectual constructs that can be documented on
parchment or sandtables. The Internet of everything presupposes that we cannot support non-technological societies or aspects of our own.
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[11:12] David Whitten: I was asked to write my concern in the chat: My concern about making the Summit topic being the "Internet of Things" is that there it
is still something being actively researched and may not be well developed enough to be worth the time at this time. The nascent nature of this topic may not
be worth our focus until is better defined.
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[11:13] Michael Grüninger: @Donna: Yes, the idea would be that over the next month, the people interested in being on the Organizing Committee would meet and
refine the scope for the Summit. The objective would be to have the decision about Tracks being made in the early December session
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[11:14] Mark Underwood: RE maturity of IoT / IoE - This is emerging in some fields, but in others, e.g., DoD sensor networks, it is at least less new, if not
mature. It's largely parallel to the Big Data theme: some folks think it's just VLDG / High Speed Computing warmed over, whereas the V-advocates think it is
a paradigm shift worth addressing beyond the popular framework.
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